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Florida shooting survivors have a voice because they believe in change | Sam Wolfson

Despite their grief, these students have been eloquently and effectively insisting that we don’t have to accept the world’s horrors
WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 21: Students participate in a protest against gun violence February 21, 2018 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Hundreds of students from a number of Maryland and DC schools walked out of their classrooms and made a trip to the U.S. Capitol and the White House to call for gun legislation, one week after 17 were killed in the latest mass school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Anyone who has attempted public speaking, especially to make a contrary point in a room full of unsympathetic ears, will know that however much you prepare, there is a moment where you just have to jump on to the live wire of the moment, when your mouth starts to run while your brain fades to white.

That is what is so rousing about the speeches and media appearances made by the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school since the earlier this month. In nearly all of them their , then they pause to gulp air and weep.

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